BS 6960:1988

National foreword
Committees responsible
Service Definition
0. Introduction
1. Scope and field of application
2. References
Section one. General
3. Definitions
4. Symbols and abbreviations
5. Conventions
6. Model of the session service
7. Overview of the session service
8. Phases and services of the session service
9. Functional units and subsets
10. Quality of session service
Section two. Session service primitives
11. Introduction
12. Session connection establishment phase
13. Data transfer phase
14. Session connection release phase
15. Sequence of primitives
16. Collision
Annexes
A. State tables
B. Corrections incorporated in ISO 8326: 1987
Tables
1. Functional units using tokens
2. Services associated with each functional unit
3. Classification of performance QOS parameters
4. Parameters specifying other session service
     features
5. Session connection establishment phase primitives
6. Data transfer phase primitives
7. Session connection release phase primitives
8. Token restrictions on service primitives
9. Session connection establishment primitives and
     parameters
10. Normal data transfer primitives and parameters
11. Expedited data transfer primitives and parameters
12. Types data primitives and parameters
13. Capability data exchange primitives and parameters
14. Give tokens primitives and parameters
15. Please tokens primitives and parameters
16. Minor synchronization point primitives and
     parameters
17. Major synchronization point primitives and
     parameters
18. Resynchronize primitives and parameters
19. P-exception reporting primitives and parameters
20. U-exception reporting primitives and parameters
21. Activity start primitives and parameters
22. Activity resume primitives and parameters
23. Activity interrupt primitives and parameters
24. Activity discard primitives and parameters
25. Activity end primitives and parameters
26. Orderly release primitives and parameters
27. U-abort primitives and parameters
28. P-abort primitives and parameters
29. Indications resulting from collision resolution
30. Events generated by the SS-provider
31. States
32. Events generated by the SS-user
33. Operations on variables
34. Specific actions
35. Predicates
36. Connection establishment state table
37. Data transfer state table
38. Synchronization state table
39. Re-synchronization state table
40. Activity interrupt and discard state table
41. Activity start, resume and capability data state
     table
42. Token management and exceptions state table
43. Connection release state table
Figures
1. Relationship of this International Standard to
     other OSI standards
2. Example of a structured dialogue unit
3. Example of a structured activity
4. Components of residual error rate

Defines the externally visible service provided by the session layer in terms of the primitive actions and events of the service; the parameter data associated with each primitive action and event; valid sequences of these actions and events.